What are Azure API Apps and how it is used?

What are Azure API Apps?

Azure API Apps provide a platform that enables creating, hosting and using API‘s for cloud and on premises infrastructure. It enables in creating and app that can provide API based application / software accessibility, connectivity for SaaS / hybrid cloud environments and a central API management platform.

How Azure API Apps are used?

Azure API Apps are primarily designed for software developers and vendors / publishers to provide them with means to create, deliver, use and manage RESTFul Web API’s for their software / apps. Azure API Apps can be used to provide;

SaaS connectivity – provide SaaS publishers the ability to publish and consume their own set of API calls

Integration with other Azure App services such as Azure Logic Apps, Web Apps and Mobile Apps

Automate and manage the process of creating, versioning, deploying and managing API’s